[CS-FSLUG] The Moral Foundation of Free Software

[David Aikema]

To me it does matter ... I see the issue as corporate ethics, not just
Microsoft's dealings.

Consider a drug-dealing analogy.  If we're to arrest a cocaine dealer
for selling drugs, should we then instead direct people to someone
selling marajiuna?

I don't mean to say that we should not support open source, but, on
the other hand, I don't think that we should blindly adopt it.  We
live in a sinful world - sin and corruption exists in Microsoft and
without - as well as within the church and without.

David

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 12:37:52 -0500, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> On Mon January 3 2005 1:09 am, David Aikema wrote:
> > On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 15:12:56 -0500, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com>
> wrote:
> > > Try "IMMORAL monopoly."
> >
> > I thought that you were boycotting Mandrake due to France's opposition
> > to the Iraq war (although at the same time ... given that the German
> > position appears to be the sa
> 
> [snip]
> 
> David, don't try "bait and switch" with me! It matters NOT what any other
> company or gov't has done......the issue is MickySoft.....NOT anyone else.
> 
> Fred